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You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.

Martin Walser

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Martin Walser
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: March 24
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Wasserburg (Bodensee)
Question
Simply
Understand
Declare
Cannot
Abandon
Trying
Anymore
Years
Interested
Spend
Thousand

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